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Solutions can be found following the section exercises.
Fifty percent of the students enrolled in a business statistics course had previously taken a finite mathematics course. Thirty percent of these students received an A for the statistics course, whereas 20 percent of the other students received an A for the statistics course.
What is the conditional probability that a student previously took a finite mathematics course, given that they received an A in the statistics course?
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